From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [harder@ifa.au.dk: `set-locale-environment' bug] Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:49:13 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310280714.QAA05836@etlken.m17n.org> <9791-Tue28Oct2003222608+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067446446 32306 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 16:54:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 17:54:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEta8-0002Aa-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:54:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEta7-0001ik-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:54:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEtXf-0007Rv-BZ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEtXL-0007Qw-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEtWo-0007Gl-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:51:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.162.153.4] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEtWm-0007Ed-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:50:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.249.130.106] (0xc3f9826a.esnxr3.ras.tele.dk [195.249.130.106]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68ED262A7E; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:50:22 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "29 Oct 2003 08:39:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17557 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17557 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Jesper Harder > >> (standard-display-8bit (if (eq window-system 'pc) 128 160) 255) >> >> This controls how eight-bit-control and eight-bit-graphics is >> displayed, right? > > this sets up the display of characters whose 8-bit codepoints are > [160..255], i.e., the normal 8-bit region of Latin-1 characters. > > In other words, for a typical Unix or GNU system in the dk locale, > this line instructs Emacs to send the 8-bit codes of Latin-1 > characters directly to the terminal, which is what I think you'd > want, since terminals in your locale generally support display of > Latin-1 characters. I don't understand. As far as I can tell it makes no difference for the display of Latin-1 characters. It does _not_ change the dislay of `M-x list-charset-chars latin-iso8859-1' in an xterm, the console or in X. It does, however, change the display of the eight-bit-graphic "charset".